Lorraine Aragon
Lorraine Aragon is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Resources created by Lorraine Aragon
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- Tourism and opportunism
- In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 19
- Cambodia became awash with weapons and burdened by distrust after its civil wars in the 1970s, which were linked to the Vietnam War. After the wars, the growing population experienced high rates of unemployment and poverty as well as trauma. Many young men...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The U.S. Embassy
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 13
- Although many Vietnamese linked to the U.S. army initially entered the Embassy compound for evacuation, on the last day an order was given to airlift only Embassy documents and American citizens. Vietnamese who had worked many years for the U.S. Embassy or...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- An underground demon
- In The Ramayana, page 4.14
- This dark and fierce demon, whose top half is seen as if from above, has small tusks and curly hair. He is wearing a gold headdress and arm bands as he pushes the crust of the earth upward. The image is from a mural in the Emerald Buddha Temple.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Underground resistance
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 12
- When U.S. forces could not control the tunnel areas effectively with ground troops, they dropped bombs on the area, seriously damaging the tunnel network and surrounding land. At two sites in Cu Chi, about 45 miles northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, the tunnels...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Vietnam: Historical background
- Vietnam has strong historical connections to China and India and has been ruled by both China and France. After turmoil and wars in the twentieth century, Vietnam embarked on a program of reform that has opened relations with the United States.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- View from a balcony
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 22
- Even in apartments with automatic washing machines, drying is done without machines because clothes dry rapidly outdoors in the tropics. The young woman and girl here are calling down from an apartment balcony in Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Viewing the emperor
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 15
- The “Noontime Gate” shown here is the main entrance over a moat into the walled Imperial City at Hué.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- War tourism
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 17
- At two sites in Cu Chi, about 45 miles northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, the tunnels dug by Communist guerillas have been restored and are open for visitors. Tourists can enter some of the tunnels and examine supply storage areas as well as false entrances created...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Water for drinking
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 16
- This well, rimmed with a cement wall, is a community water source at Mai Chau. A red plastic pail suspended from a pole and washing basin are visible on the right. In the background, laundry is drying. Traditionally, Southeast Asian highlanders drew water...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Water puppets
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 19
- In this water puppet performance in Hanoi, one high status character in the procession rides a wooden horse while the others carry his flag or guard his possessions. Vietnam's unique water puppet tradition is said to date back approximately 1,000 years. Early...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Wet rice in the highlands
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 3
- This photograph, and most of the photos that follow, was taken in Mai Chau, in the highlands of northwestern Vietnam. In most of Southeast Asia, the highlands are too dry or steep to construct the standing water pools required to nourish wet rice. Therefore,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Winnowing by hand
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 12
- Winnowing trays are round and generally plaited from bamboo strands woven tightly onto a rattan frame. In rural villages, they are made at home by members of every household along with most of their other farming and household tools. Rice grains that have...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Women as merchants
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 9
- Women throughout Southeast Asia regularly work in outdoor markets, both as preparers and sellers of food items. This woman, at an outdoor market in Hanoi, sells variously colored noodles from large trays. Noodle-making is a fine art in Vietnam, where ingredients...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Women working
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21
- The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Women's Gate
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 14
- Protective carved dragons adorn the tiled roofs and arched doorways. Note, again, the two-tiered, rather than three-tiered, roofs that show the architects' respect for the powerful Chinese emperor.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Working in the fields
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 5
- Both men and women work in the wet-rice fields. Rural women living in highland Southeast Asia typically scale high mountains and do hard outdoor physical labor, which keeps them physically fit and strong. With one basket strapped at the waist and another larger...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Working with animals
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 7
- In addition to providing labor, water buffalo also sometimes are eaten at major community feasts. Traditionally, buffalo were a major source of wealth for Southeast Asian families. They still are favored in highland wet-rice areas where neither humans not...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
